Ross E. Doughty, Jr. (1910-2000)

Ross E. Doughty, Jr. was born June 27, 1910 in Uvalde, Texas. He
graduated from Uvalde High School and attended Texas A & M
University before entering The University of Texas School of
Law.

After earning his law degree, Doughty was admitted to the Texas
bar in 1935 and began a long career of service in the Texas
judicial system. He served as city judge of Uvalde and was elected
five times to the position of Uvalde county attorney. He was
elected twice to the office of district attorney of the
Thirty-Eighth Judicial District, and in 1949 was appointed judge of
that district by Gov. Allan Shivers. He was reelected to the
position seven times. Doughty was married in 1938, and the couple
had a daughter.

Doughty was appointed an associate justice of the Texas Supreme
Court by Gov. Dolph Briscoe after Ruel C. Walker retired in 1975.
He served as a justice until the end of the following year.

Beginning in 1977 Doughty served for six years as presiding
judge of the Sixth Administrative Judicial District. He died March
18, 2000 at the age of eighty-nine.

Sources

House Concurrent Resolution 137, 77th Legislature of
the State of Texas, March 6, 2001.